And a scribe came up and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go."
So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that the LORD the God of Israel had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the LORD his God was on him.
and perhaps I will stay with you or even spend the winter, so that you may help me on my journey, wherever I go.